Negligent farmer refuses to help his neighbor build a fence after his escaped pigs repeatedly damage his property, so the 27-year-old landowner suggests a country compromise: ‘Time to make some bacon’

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Aug 17, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

Most landowners would be furious if they woke up to a destroyed crop and a herd of escaped pigs enjoying a buffet of stolen veggies, and this 27-year-old finally ran out of patience with his negligent neighbor after the second incident. With hungry hogs feasting their way through his autumnal harvest, this landowner was on a mission to put an end to his neighbor's entitlement; however, that farmer wasn't willing to work or contribute towards any kind of compromise. 

Perhaps all there was left to do was offer a country compromise—a "quid pro quo" if you will—where both parties are satisfied with their payment. In this case, breakfast was starting to smell a little more like bacon and less like lost pumpkins. 

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  • AITA for telling my neighbor his resolution wasn't acceptable I (27F) live in the country. I have chickens, hunting dogs, pets, and some random food plants. My neighbor had some horses, has 3 sheep, multiple
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  • dogs he doesn't care for and pigs. I said had horses because animal control took the horses because they were malnourished after they got a call about the sheep continuously getting out (I didn't call).
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  • Well his pigs have gotten out before and I came into my yard and I've had to call him to get them. Recently, they have been getting out almost daily and I have notified him every time about it but they have not been on my property. Well on
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  • Friday they got out ate all my bloomed pumpkins and were at my dog pens. I was upset but still had some almost ready to bloom so I got over it. We called him the pigs were allegedly put up. Well after calling animal control this
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  • time I was told to not contact him again about the pigs and if they disappeared they disappeared. Fast forward to Saturday the pigs were out... again. I didn't call him they were on him property. Sunday I woke up they had
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  • eaten all my cucumbers and tomatoes to the root and my pumpkins to the ground except for a few leaves (all bulbs gone and I was LIVID). They were at my dogs pens... again and my dogs were trying to get out. We finally got them off the
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  • property and called my neighbor, he said he would be there in a hour. He came back 3 hours later and tried to come on my property without notification to talk to us. We had went to get food.
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  • Finally about 6 hours later he spoke with us and only offered to buy me a new pumpkin plant, which he would have to wait till next year because they aren't selling any now and definitely won't produce this year and honestly I don't have a green thumb so it was a miracle I had anything growing. AITAH for telling him that is not an acceptable resolution?
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  • Edit to add: I gave him the choices of helping with a fence (either labor or cost) or to get rid of all animals on the property since he says he can't afford to pay for their damages (I'm not the only one). Neither one he's willing to do. Also some may have already been eradicated from my property. I also cannot stay home all the time to wait for his pigs to slip up again.
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  • While he jokingly said he would eat the man's pigs, ultimately, all this landowner wanted was a barrier between his land and his neighbor's. He was tired of random animals traipsing their way over yonder and wanted some finality and some responsibility put on the guy next door. Perhaps if all of his animals just went missing, he wouldn't have any farm critters left to terrorize the countryside.

  • HammyMugats I'd tell him that if one of the pigs is in your freezer this winter, you'll call it even. Food for Food.
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  • crazyredneck21798 OP That conversation was definitely had. He was not a happy camper No-To-Newspeak Time to make some bacon.
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  • “The owner doesn't care, neither should you”

  • asamue16 You called animal control and they did nothing. You're out in the country. So do some country sh to ensure they don't come around again. The owner doesn't care, neither should you.
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  • Antique-Agent-2992. NTA and you may need to use Small Claims court. Those veggies were almost ready to pick. Essentially, he is responsible for any damage his animals are doing and you have a right to proper recompense.
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  • “Bacon for breakfast”

  • ChampionFrequent4643. You are so NTA here for too many reasons to explain. At this point it would have been perfectly acceptable to have bacon for breakfast the next day.
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